Shadowing Practice: 27 Facts That Will Make You Question Your Existence - Learn English Speaking with Video
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This is Earth.
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This is where you live.
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And this is where you live in your neighborhood.
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The solar system.
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Here's the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
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Doesn't look too far, does it?
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Think again.
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At their farthest point, the Earth and the Moon are 252,088 miles away.
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Inside that distance, you can fit every planet in our entire solar system.
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But let's talk about planets.
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The great red spot on Jupiter, that's about two times as big as Earth.
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And Saturn is about nine times wider than Earth.
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Saturn's rings are so large that a few of the fragments within them are as large as mountains.
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But that's nothing compared to our sun.
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Just remember, this is Earth.
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And this is Earth from the Moon.
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This is Earth from Mars.
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Here's Earth from just behind Saturn's rings.
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And here's Earth from just beyond Neptune, four billion miles away.
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But a billion's a big number, so let's put that in perspective.
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One million seconds equals about 11 and a half days, whereas one billion seconds equals over 31 years.
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Let's step back a bit.
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Here's the size of Earth compared with the size of our sun.
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Terrifying, right?
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And here's that exact same sun from the surface of Mars.
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As Carl Sagan once mused, The total number of stars in the universe is larger than
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all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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And there are some stars out there that are much, much bigger than our little wimpy sun.
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The biggest star we know of, V.Y.
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Canis Majoris, is about 2,000 times the diameter of our sun.
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But none of those compares to the size of a galaxy.
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In fact, if you shrink the size of our solar system down to the size of a quarter, and shrink the Milky Way galaxy down using the same scale,
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the diameter of the Milky Way will be roughly the size of the United States.
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That's because the Milky Way galaxy is huge.
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Its diameter is about 100,000 light years wide, which, when converted to miles, is about 621 quadrillion, 371 trillion,
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192 billion, 237 million, 333,890 miles.
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Inside of all of that is you.
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You live in this tiny, tiny portion of the Milky Way.
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But even still, our galaxy is a little runt compared with some others.
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NGC 6744, a spiral galaxy similar to our own, is twice as wide as the Milky Way,
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stretching over 200,000 light years across.
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It is massive. But let's think bigger.
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In this picture alone, taken by the Hubble telescope, there are thousands and thousands of galaxies,
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each containing millions or billions of stars with their own planets.
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Some of the objects seen here may have formed as many as 11 billion years ago, just 3 billion years after the Big Bang.
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This period of time is considered one of the busiest star-forming periods.
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And just keep this in mind, that's a picture of a very small, small part of the universe.
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So if you're ever feeling upset about your favorite show being cancelled, or the fact that they play Christmas music way too early, just remember, this is your home.
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Earth.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “27 Facts That Will Make You Question Your Existence”. Las palabras que más se repiten: Earth, billion, size, Milky, galaxy. Este vídeo tiene 49 frases y 523 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:11. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 125 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 86 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| galaxy sustantivo | /ˈɡæl.ək.si/ | galaxia |
| compare verbo | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | comparar, parangonar |
| diameter sustantivo | /daɪˈæmɪdɚ/ | diámetro |
| sand sustantivo | /sænd/ | arena |
| whereas | /(h)wɛɹˈæz/ | mientras que (locution) |
| roughly adverbio | /ˈɹʌf.li/ | toscamente |
| stretch verbo | /stɹɛt͡ʃ/ | estirar |
| cancel verbo | /ˈkæn.sl̩/ | tachar |
| grain sustantivo | /ɡɹeɪn/ | grano |
| convert verbo | /kənˈvɝt/ | convertir |
| spiral sustantivo | /ˈspaɪɹəl/ | espiral |
| telescope sustantivo | /ˈtɛl.əˌskoʊp/ | telescopio, catalejo |
| muse verbo | /mjuːz/ | cavilar, meditar |
| fragment sustantivo | /ˈfɹæɡmənt/ | fragmento |
| runt sustantivo | /ɹʌnt/ | benjamín, pequeñajo |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stretch /stɹɛt͡ʃ/, spiral /ˈspaɪɹəl/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, muse /mjuːz/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como galaxy, compare, diameter.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.